Functional Similarities in Spatial Representations Between Real and Virtual Environments

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 12-

  Williams, Betsy ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^a   Narasimhan, Gayathri ^b   Westerman, Claire ^b   Rieser, John ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology and Human Development ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human Factors; Measurement; space perception; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979974878     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1265957.1265961     Document Type: Article

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